Synopsis

This working paper sets out a framework to scale up locally-driven solutions to ecosystem decline, climate change and poverty.

Key Findings

  • To attain the MDGs, rural development strategies will have to adjust. Effective strategies must enhance the livelihood opportunities of the rural poor while sustaining the ecosystem services on which they depend; must be able to achieve sufficient scale to have a broad effect; and must be designed to increase economic, social, and ecological resilience to climate change.

  • Three decades of development experience has shown that action at the local level—with local organizations as key actors—underpins the success and sustainability of most environment and development initiatives. Poverty reduction strategies and climate change interventions can’t succeed without being rooted in the perspectives, capabilities, and actions of local organizations.

  • 基于本地生态系统的举措具有为参与者带来经济，社会和环境利益的潜力。生态系统的健康与穷人建立资产，提高粮食安全，改善健康，降低风险并拥有更安全的生活的机会之间存在直接关系，简而言之。

  • 如果要实现足够的影响，就必须扩大这样的本地生态系统计划。这需要有效地引导资源并在地方层面发展能力，并结合更高层次的支持政策和机构改革。

  • Now is the time to act on the potential of local action and to tackle the challenge of scaling up successful ecosystem-based approaches to poverty reduction and the threats of climate change and ecosystem decline. Interest in local approaches is growing; funding for local efforts at climate change adaptation is increasing; and the international community has renewed its commitment to achievement of the MDGs. A joint effort to provide the enabling conditions for scaling up local ecosystem-based initiatives could be an effective route to localizing the MDGs, sustaining ecosystem services and biodiversity, and improving rural adaptation to climate change.

Executive Summary

This Working Paper has been jointly produced by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the high-level event on Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Climate Change: Scaling Up Local Solutions to Achieve the MDGs, in support of the UN MDG Review Summit (September 2010).

生态系统的衰落和气候变化共同改变了发展规则，必威官网是真的吗给千年发展目标议程带来了新的紧迫性。由于生态系统服务通常是农村贫困人口收入的很大一部分，因此生态系统下降的当前趋势威胁到其家庭经济的基础。必威官网是真的吗气候变化将对生态系统施加更多的压力，并进一步加剧农村贫困人口面临的挑战，破坏努力加速和维持朝着千年发展目标（MDGS）的进步。

Framework for Action

An action framework to scale up local ecosystem-based initiatives should include five key elements.

  • 锻造有利的政策环境，为穷人提供了安全的资源权利，市场获取和公平法规，以及在地方和国家决策中的声音。
  • Building local capacity and providing support services, to ensure that local groups have the skills and support they need to sustainably manage local ecosystems and run successful enterprises.
  • Ensuring equitable access to finance, from both traditional sources and from emerging sources of environmental and climate finance, so that local groups have sufficient investment and operating capital to carry out their plans.
  • Facilitating learning and knowledge sharing, in order to share best practices, speed up the innovation cycle, and to inform policymakers and policy processes.
  • Adopting a programmatic approach to scaling up that goes beyond a project-by-project focus to adopt a comprehensive and coordinated effort among government, NGOs, international development agencies, and the private sector to foster the enabling conditions for scaling.